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26 Sep 15 - 04:50 PM (#3739962) Subject: British Sea Shanties and Sea Songs doc. From: GUEST,Lizzie Cornish Well, I was just thinking of dear Barry Finn this evening, listening to some of the videos of his lovely singing, etc...and from there, I went hunting for some Sea Shanty videos. I found this and just thought some might enjoy it, if you've not yet seen it: BBC doc - British Shanties and Sea Songs And here, of course, is Barry: Barry - 'The Banks Of The Callow' |
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27 Sep 15 - 10:07 AM (#3740110) Subject: RE: British Sea Shanties and Sea Songs documentary From: Sandra in Sydney thanks for posting the link sandra |
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27 Sep 15 - 01:08 PM (#3740128) Subject: RE: British Sea Shanties and Sea Songs documentary From: Mr Red Great seeing the video again. But "Shoals of Herrin'" Scottish? Maybe 50% Scottish through Macoll's mother, though Charles Parker may have had input too. |
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27 Sep 15 - 02:59 PM (#3740152) Subject: RE: British Sea Shanties and Sea Songs documentary From: Dave Hanson Shoals of Herring was based on the speech patterns etc of Sam Larner, from NORFOLK. Dave H |